Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

Life's a bitch," I said. "And then you die," Larry finished for me.

I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while. It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it? Would I be calling you if I had? Maybe, I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it. Why not? Friendship. Try again, I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you. Comforting...

Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don't want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

You look wonderful, Jason said. No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie. Then by all means take it off.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.